Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

Famed author, essayist and screenwriter died this week aged 73

Martin Amis
Martin Amis: the Mick Jagger of the literary world
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A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

He wrote 15 novels, as well as journalism and essays that stretched from “an account of arcade video games, through literary studies and critiques of pop culture, to a meditation on Stalin’s crimes: Koba the Dread {2002}”.

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